Reviews tagging 'Racial slurs'

Cleópatra e Frankenstein by Coco Mellors

6 reviews

thedambookshelf's review against another edition

5.0

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful reflective sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal death, Body horror, Body shaming, Drug abuse, Drug use, Homophobia, Infidelity, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual content, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Blood, Medical content, Grief, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Gaslighting, Toxic friendship, Dysphoria

Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Chronic illness, Cursing, Transphobia, Death of parent, Sexual harassment, Injury/Injury detail

secondstar_red's review against another edition

4.25

dark emotional reflective tense slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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A great character study about the complicated people in a messy friend group and their relationships with each other. There was a bit too much graphic smut for my personal preference, if that wasn’t included I would have rated it a bit higher. 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Sexual content, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Transphobia, Death of parent

Minor: Adult/minor relationship, Racial slurs

jamie003's review against another edition

2.75

dark sad fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Mental illness, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal death, Death of parent

Minor: Racial slurs, Transphobia

pettyreader's review against another edition

1.0

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Mental illness, Racial slurs, Self harm, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Dementia, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , Sexual harassment

mrjln's review against another edition

2.5

emotional reflective fast-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: No

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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Though there were Black characters and one trans woman, in my opinion this book is not diverse since they were not well written. Coco Melors should have hired a sensitivity reader or researched more into the experiences of these marginalised groups of people. Also the slur with the g-word was used.
With this bad representation it would have been better if all characters were cis white.

Besides that it felt like reading about different kinds of rich white assholes that are addicted to drugs and destroy themselves and others and do not communicate with others.

I di understand where the hype comes from though, because I do like the style and it's intriguing to find out how all these mosaic pieces fit together.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Suicide attempt, Alcohol

Minor: Racial slurs, Sexual harassment

sheonceread's review against another edition

3.5

dark emotional reflective medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: No

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

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the reviews for this are a mess and so was it. i guess it’s trying to do the whole mediocre people in mediocre situations, human relationships type of reflective story but it just didn’t hit the way it’s supposed to. it’s too long, for one. and the narrative is all over the place, which i usually dont mind, but it just seemed erratic—maybe that’s the whole theme i dont know. lots of the characters are so stereotypical of their race/sexuality, in my opinion, and there were some parts that i think was unnecessary and even a little offensive. 

(see: sugar glider)

it got better right at the end and i finally felt the warm, emotional feeling i was supposed to get the whole book. i can appreciate this book, but i don’t love it and it’s such a shame because i REALLY wanted to.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Addiction, Drug abuse, Suicide, Suicide attempt

Moderate: Animal cruelty, Animal death, Gore, Mental illness, Panic attacks/disorders, Racial slurs, Rape, Sexual violence